Migrating a web hosting service via a virtual network from one architecture to another

• US 8,595,338 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2011
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Newfold Digital, Inc. (Clearlake Capital Group LP)
• Original Assignee: The Endurance International Group, Inc. (Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ravichandran, Hari, Moseley, Mark, Lovell, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAYA, TEJIS A
• Application Number:
  US13/013,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,035 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0243 Comparative campaigns
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5048 Automatic or semi-automatic definitions, e.g. definition templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1014 based on the content of a request
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

An automated tool for migrating a website hosting service from a first website hosting architecture to a second website hosting architecture, wherein a virtual network is used during migration to facilitate keeping the services available during the movement of IP addresses from one architecture to the other architecture.

Claims

1. A method of automatic website hosting service migration, comprising the steps of:

determining a plurality of website hosting services provided by a first website hosting architecture to at least one website;

analyzing the plurality of website hosting services to identify at least one of the plurality of website hosting services that corresponds to a common website hosting service of a second website hosting architecture;

configuring a virtual network that connects the first website hosting architecture with the second website hosting architecture to facilitate responding to a network request to access services provided to the at least one website during migration; and

in response to the network request, serving one of the at least one of the plurality of website hosting services from the first website hosting architecture and the corresponding common website hosting service from the second website hosting architecture via the virtual network based on a migration status of the at least one website.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second website hosting architecture serves a plurality of common website hosting services to a plurality of unrelated websites.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first website hosting architecture serves the plurality of website hosting services to a specific website.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first website hosting architecture comprises one of a grid and a cloud computing environment.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second website hosting architecture comprises one of a grid and a cloud computing environment.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first website hosting architecture comprises a virtual computing environment.